Seoul, September 25 – November 15, 2015, http://www.museum.go.kr The temporary exhibition of Early Buddhist Sculpture was very welcoming and easy to navigate. It was just the right size to spend between half an hour (running through) to two hours (taking careful looks). It was logically structured along a simple narrative from early origins of Buddhism…
Hong Kong, September 18 – October 13, 2015, http://www.pearllam.com An Italian artist like Pino Pinelli, now in his 70’s, has lived through a lot. The press release mentioned a “deep influence by the Zero Group” but he was not part of them. The body of work seems to revolve around monochrome “paintings” that change their…
Hong Kong, September 17 – October 10, 2015, http://www.leogallery.com.cn Alec von Bargen is an actor-turned photographer. His acting experience seeps through into his photographic work, which is always centered on human individuals, their expressions and feelings. Formally, works are either specific portraits of anonymous individuals, or photographs of more generic silhouettes that metaphorically stand for…
Hong Kong, September 1 – October 5, 2015, http://www.galeriehuit.com.hk Fujimura is an artist in his 50’s, Japanese, living in the U.S. Works seem to be made by applying ink or dry pigment onto paper mounted on a stretched canvas. Beautiful works, somewhere between abstract expressionism and Asian ink painting. Suitable for any living room or…
Seoul, August 28 – October 25, 2015, http://ilmin.org/ Cho Duck Hyun’s main skill is the ability to minutely copy photographs as graphite pencil drawings on large canvases covered with Korean mulberry paper. The photos are reproduced in black and white, and the originals are also usually black and white vintage photographs. This technique that produced…
Seoul, September 16 – 30, 2015, http://www.ujungartcenter.com/ An exhibition of paintings. All seem to be based on old black and white photographs, but I did not know why, so I assume it is the preferred period in which the artist would like to live if she could choose. The element of fascination with the past…
Seoul, September 16 – December 15, 2015, https://www.cccc.or.kr/, http://www.aptinstitute.org Jung Ju An, Je Baak, Sunghun Choi & Sunmin Park, RohwaJeong, Sojung Jun, Lee Nam Lee, Wan Lee, Yongseok Oh, Junebum Park, Ho Yeol Ryu, Shin Kiwoun, Yangachi, Hyun Mi Yoo The Creative Center for Convergence Culture is located in Seoul’s Digital Media City, a purpose-built…
Seoul, August 19 – September 19, 2015 http://www.songeunartspace.org As the title suggested, this was the second part of the show, and indeed it was a continuation of part one. Overall it seemed that this two-part exhibition tried to give justice to each and every artist SongEun has cooperated with in the last 5 years. There…
Seoul, June 23 – November 1, 2015 (The Sound of Things) and September 1 – November 29, 2015 (Choi Jong Tae), http://mmca.go.kr “The Sound of Things” presented 30 or more years of Korean minimalist/nature-related art in the large circular exhibition space of MMCA Gwacheon and adjacent rooms. It was a comprehensive selection and very worthy…
Seoul, September 11 – December 12, 2015, http://hitecollection.com Artists: 강서경 (Suki Seokyeong Kang), 김영은 (Young Eun Kim), 로와정 (RohwaJeong), 박형지 (Hyungji Park), 이은우 (Eunu Lee), 정희승 (Heeseung Chung) Each of the works in this exhibition was special in its own way, but as a whole it felt a bit bland. I am guessing it is a result of trying too…